When was Lela Ann Loveless Lancaster born? A QuickLesson13 Example
I am participating as a panelist in the DearMyrtle study group, studying Elizabeth Shown Mills' QuickLessons.* This week is QuickLesson 13: Classes of Evidence--Direct, Indirect, & Negative. Since I am writing about my grandmother's mother, I felt I should post this in the blog I write about her ancestors. Introduction We learn from QuickLesson 13 that Sources give us information that can be used as evidence but in order to use that evidence we must have a research question . One piece of information may be used as evidence to answer one question and another piece used to answer a different question. This evidence is then categorized as Direct , Indirect , and Negative . Direct Evidence Most of the time we conduct our research hoping to find that piece of information that will directly answer our research question. If our research question was “When was John Smith born?”, our evidence could come from a birth certificate that gives of the complete birthdate o...